SALT deduction

House Democrats are considering a two-year repeal as one of their potential paths to undoing the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

The stumbling block is scrapping the deduction limit without losing progressives wary of a tax cut that would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy.

A CPA and a corporate communications vet are at the forefront of trying to reinstate the state and local tax deduction.

New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams told a group of House lawmakers that the limit on the state and local tax deduction is harming the city.

Democrats may include at least a partial expansion of the state and local income tax deduction in the $3.5 trillion budget outline that Senate Democrats agreed upon this week.

A rare show of bipartisan unity unfolded Tuesday, with 18 lawmakers making the case for an expansion of the state and local tax deduction.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is proposing to partially revive the federal deduction for state and local taxes in an draft outline of a budget resolution designed to fast-track much of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.

The president’s plan for trillions in proposed spending and tax increases is likely to take at least until September to clear.

Representative Tom Suozzi, one of the leaders in Congress behind the push for an expansion of the state and local tax deduction, is considering proposing a one-time wealth tax on the richest Americans.

Contrary to the dire predictions at the time, the massive overhaul of the nation’s Tax Code during Donald Trump’s presidency had a negligible initial impact on the nation’s domestic migration patterns, new data from the Internal Revenue Service show.